They have led us to the brink of financial ruin, government handbooks, huge unemployment, weakened military, coddling terror. People who vote Demcratic must be either Democrats: naive, stupid, insane or evil. there is no other explanation.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

3 of Obama's big economic lies

President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that's happened since he became President, and everything that's still going to happen.

If only more of it were true.

Here are three major whoppers Obama tried to sell yesterday.

1. Obamacare is going great.

He'ssaid this before, and each time, it's actually less true. To hear the President tell it, Obamacare is all about security, free things, and discounts.

This was one of Obama'sbig first-term promises, so he would like to show that he's delivered on it. But this claim ignores the hugedeficit he ran upduring his first few years in office.

Congress had to pass Obamacare before we could see what was in it. Maybe Obama had to run up the deficit before he could cut it?

"Public debt doubledunder his watch," says Romina Boccia, Heritage's Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs. "Deficits projected at $642 billion by the Congressional Budget Office for this year are 'low' only when compared to their trillion-dollar-plus levels over the past four years. The U.S. deficit and debt situation actuallyworsened since before the recession."

3. Middle-class income is stuck in the '70s.

The President paints himself as the savior of the middle class—and it's the nefarious 1 percent he's going to save us from, so he has to drive a wedge between the classes.

His claim: "The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while the typical family's barely budged."

But in fact,incomes across the board have been rising. Heritage's David Azerrad dispatches Obama's falsehood:

According to the nonpartisanCongressional Budget Office, after-tax income has risen for all Americans, albeit by very different margins, during this timeframe. For those in the middle three quintiles—i.e. the "typical families"—income has increased by almost 40 percent.

As Ron Hasking and Scott Winship of the Brookings Institutionconclude: "There is no disappearing middle class in these data; nor can household income, even at the bottom, be characterized as stagnant, let alone declining."